Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	know_v	word_n	4,458	5	3.8471	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02914	A short and plaine proofe by the word, and workes off God, that Gods decree is not the cause off anye mans sinne or condemnation And that all men are redeamed by Christ. As also. That no infants are condemned.	Helwys, Thomas, 1550?-1616?	1611 (1611)	STC 13055; ESTC S118308	16,962	30

A SHORT AND PLAINE proofe by the Word and workes off God that Gods decree is not the cause off anye Mans sinne or Condemnation AND That all Men are redeamed by Christ As also That no Infants are Condemned Collos 2.8 Beware least there be anie man that spople you through Philosophie and vaine deceipt Psal 119 113. I hate vaine inventions but thy Law doe I love Printed 1611. To the ladie Bovves Grace and vvisedome from aboue WOrthy Ladie when I began to consider to whome I might best commend the care of this so great a cause my hart could conceiue of none so fitt as you that for two causes the third may not be wanting The first is because I knowe your faithful vnfained loue to God his truth that in manie thinges according to knowledg The second because I knowe there is none in that Land that hath better meanes to procure a cause of religion to be handled according to the judgmeÌ„t of the best The third is the faithful revereÌ„d loueing respect I beare to you that from your owne worthie deserts in the best things in all good vnto me I pray beseech you by that loue of God that hath bene in you of long time the which I wish may abound in you more more that you faile not my hopes herein which are That you wil either plainely see an upright consionable sound answere from the word of truth to this grouÌ„d here propounded or els giue glorie to God receiue it for the blessed truth of God The ground is easilie plainelie set downe which is that God giueing Adam freewil and power in himself not to eate of the forbidden fruit and live or to eate and dye could not in his eternal decree ordeyne or appoint him to life or death for then had his Freewil bene overthrowne if Adam had not eaten sinned which was to his owne power then had not death entred Therefore God did not decree that death should enter then Gods decree is not the cause of anie mans condemnation I now pray you Ladie with all the loue off my soule ' entertaine this great cause off God into your thoughts lett it take vp your best meditations that good thereby being produced you may stil be an instruement to advance the gospell off Iesus Christ you shal be sure off an high recompence off reward at the hands off the most high in heauen your remembrance shal be blessed amonge the Saints upon earth Thus praieing the Lord to blesse you and to giue you his holie Spirit with a gracious wise vnderstanding hart to descorne a right the thinges that differ I take leaue withal the grace faithfull honestie off my hart as I haue cause desiering your best good Tho Helvvys Iune 2. 1611. Psal 111.2 The works of the Lord are great ought to be sought out off all them that love them To all that waite for salvation by Iesus Christ Grace and peace from God WHereas we formerly in a little treatise intituled a Declaration off Faith of English people remayning at Amsterdam have in the fifth Article in short set downe our faith of Election and Reprobation concerning salvation and condemnation there haveing bene som eprivate opposition since wee writt it the love of God and vnto his truth constraineth vs to speake thus much more as we are able for the mainteynance of this cleere light of truth that God hath not in his eternal decre apointed some perticuler men to be saved and some perticuler men to be condemned and so hath redeamed but some But that Christ is given a ransome for all men yea even for the wicked that bring swift damnation vpon themselves denying the Lord that hath bought them 2. Pet. 2.1 It may and wil seeme straing that we of all others should take in hand to denie in a cause of so great controversie and so deepe a misterie to which we aunswere that it concernes vs asmuch as anie and therefore though we be not so able as we desire we were yet because we ought we are readie to shew our selves willing with the best abilitie we have and in that it is a deepe misterie as the whole truth of God is the more need had wee to search into iâ— that by the grace of God we might find the depth of it so far as God hath revealed in his word as al men ought to doe And we pray the Godly Reader not to bee deceaved by that old deceipt of the misterie of iniquitie the man of sinne which is to perswade that it is to high a point and to deepe a misterie for thee to enter into for by this deceipt hath the misterie of iniquitie prevailed aÌ„d doth to this day prevaile with thousands and ten-thousands not to search into anie part off the Scriptures at all But to rest vpon the faith of the Church aÌ„d though manie blessed be God be broken out from that depth of darknes yet they are not come to that cleare fountaine of light to knowe professe and practice that the Lord doth require at their hands to search into aÌ„d knowe his whole truth revealed in the scriptures And for this misterie in had let it be plaine vnto the that if thou oughest to knowe that a Saviour is sent then thou oughest also to knowe to whome he is sent aÌ„d if thou thinke to satisfie thy self in that thou knowest he is sent a saviour to thee therein dost thou not seeke the glorie of God nor the good of thy brother and then the love of God is not in thee Therefore cast away all excuse and applie thy hart withall care full diligence and faithful vprightnes to search and find out the depth of this high point aÌ„d misterie that thou maist give glorie to God for sending his sonne a Saviour for all Men. And so praying the God of light to make this truth also to breake furth and increase amongst you as blessed be his name it hath done and doth daylie breake furth and increase in these partes and that amongst them which your selves accomt best reformed Churches Wee require thy loveing patience to beare with our wants and thy conscionable consideration of that which is spoken to the from the word of God whose Spirit bee vpon thee Amen AMonge the rest of the fearefull works of the misterie of iniquitie this is not the least if not the greatest that men seduced by Sathan sinne through ignorance are growne to that hight off evil as they do call the Creator who is a Spirit to accoÌ„pt they wil have a natural reason off al his works And to come to one particuler they will have a reason how sinne came who or what was the first cause thereoff the word off God cannot restraine these men they will not be kept within the bounds thereoff But they will enter into the secret counsels off God by their vanie Philosophy measuring Gods thoughts by

even so might grace also reigne by righteousnes vnto Eternal life by Iesus Christ How hath the Lord by the vnspeakeable evidence off his truth proved to mens consciences that wil beleeve his word that he did not leave forsake Adam nor for his sinne any mankind vnder that condemnation which by Adams offence went over al. But by grace in Christ hath Freed Adam in him al man-kind From that sinne off Adam To make it yet more plaine that as Adam was Freed From that sinne so al man-kind was Freed And as the promise off Christ the promised seed was made sent to Adam eveÌ„ so was he promised sent to al the world for the same end which was to save him as the Lord sheweth by his owne words iff hee may bee beleeved the Lord give men harts to beleeve him Ioh. 12.47 I came not to judg the World but to save the world And Ioh. 3.17 God sent not his Sonne into the World that hee should condemne the World but that the World through him might bee saved Now let the Godly harted Reader judg whether the promissed seed Christ was not promissed sent to al the world For the same end for the which he was promissed and sent to Adam which was to save the World as he was promissed sent for the same end to al the World as to Adam So was hee promissed sent vnder the same condition to all the World as hee was promissed and sent to Adam The Condition was that Adam should beleeve and vnder this same Condition was Christ promissed and sent to al the World as is shewed by Christs owne words joh 12.46 I am come a light into the World that whosoever beleeveth in mee should not abide in darkenes And joh 3.16 God so loved the world that hee hath given his onely begotten Sonne that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Where is now this conceived device that God should decree to leave forsake some that they might perish Who hath told men off such a decree that God hath or doth with hold his grace from anie so leave them to sinne and to perish for their sinne Where have they found it out learned it so perfectly The word off God hath not taught it them And the works off God hath not shewed it vnto them thus to teach men That the Lords decrees and waies are vnequal either in his justice or in his mercie as they doe judg and teach which judg and teach that God hath decreed for Adams sinne to forsake and leave some to with-hold his grace from them that they might perish hath decreed to save other some by giveing theÌ„ Grace Whereby they would make the Lord more just to some then to other some in condemning And more merciful to some then to other some in saveing and all For one the same Synne The Lord complaynes off Israel because they say his waies are vnequal Ezech. 18. The whole Chapter throwe shewing them how vnjustly they accused him in vseing that Proverbe The Fathers have eaten sower grapes and the Childrens feeth are set on edge Charging the Lord herein to punish the Child For the Fathers Fault And the Lord in that whole part off his word even strives to prove his wayes equall in punishing the soule that sinneth And that the sonne not shall beare the iniquitie off the Father Saying Furthermore That hee hath no desire that the wicked should dye but that they should returne and live And iff the Lord had great cause to complayne off Israell For this so vnjust accusation which they laid vpon him how greater cause hath he to complayne off all you that charge him to have coÌ„demned al the soules that are condemned From the beginning off the World vnto the end thereoff For Adams sinne Sayinge that God decreed to leave them vnder Adams sinne And not to give them a Saviour And to with-hold his grace that they might perish makeing Adams sinne the cause off all their condemnation For it being the cause that the Lord doth leave forsake them it is then the cause off their condemnation And vnder this condemnation to bring so manie thousands off millions off poore infaÌ„ts that dye before they have done good or evill Rom. 9.11 As he Holy Ghost testifyeth to be bee their condition And our Saviour Christ Luke 18.16 in commendation off the condition qualitie off Babes saith Suffer the Babes to come vnto me for of such is the kingdome of Heaven And Matt. 18 3. Except ye bee converted and become as little Children ye shal not enter into the kingdome of heaven vers 4. Whosoever therefore shal humble himself as this little Child the same is the greatest in the Kingdome of heaven In all this shewing that the Children off Christs Kingdome must be off such humble qualitie condition as infants I hope none wil deny but al infants are off one qualitie condition even the infants off the Turks Our Saviour Christ speakes off al infants generally wil men yet judg some infants condemned And of such infaÌ„ts the Lord sheweth his great coÌ„passion when he saith to the Prophet Ionah Ionah 4.11 Should I not spare Nyneueh that great cittie where are six score thousand persons that cannot descerne betwene their right hand and their left and also much Cattel Whereby the Lord sheweth that they had not sinned neither were giltie off their Fathers sinnes And wil you yet charge the Lord to condemne so manie infants al for Adams sinne are not your waies vnequall thus to say teach meÌ„ to hold thinke off God Doth the Lord say that that soule that sinneth shall dye And dare men say that the soules off infants shal dye who have neither done good nor evil Vpon these rocks and manie moe doth your opinion off perticuler redemptioÌ„ cast you And little doe you knowe the misterie off iniquitie in this point And who doth knowe the depth off the misterie off iniquitie herein Yet give vs leave to shewe you some high degrees off the misterie off iniquitie in this your opinion First it makes Gods decree the cause off sinne coÌ„deÌ„nation so makes God the author cause off condemnation sinne which is high blasphemy against the Holy one And hereby is all the sinne in the World that ever hath bene is shal be committed laid vpon God which is high iniquity the sinne off sinnes Secondly it restraineth the love off God to the world in giveing his Sonne for a Saviour and whereas our Saviour Christ saith Ioh. 3.16 God so loved the World that he hath given his onely begotteÌ„ sonne that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have eternal life This opinion off perticuler redemptioÌ„ saith That God did not so love the World but he loved some few perticuler persons as he gave his sonne for them they onely shal beleve shal

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